An online reporter visits some of the world's nastiest places,
where wars rage and ordinary people with extraordinary courage
suffer unspeakable pain and loss.Freelancing for NBC News in 2004,
Sites shot the controversial footage seen around the world of a
Marine murdering a helpless wounded Iraqi in a mosque. That episode
and its aftermath, followed by his coverage of the 2004 tsunami (he
happened to be scuba diving in the most affected region), form a
prologue to the main story. When NBC offered him a staff job on the
condition that he get a haircut, shave his goatee and go to
"correspondent 'boot camp,' " Sites turned instead to Yahoo! News
to develop his "Hot Zone" project: a website featuring footage,
text and slide shows from the world's most searing spots. From
September 2005 to August 2006, he skimmed the globe, stopping for
brief periods to interview locals; observe battles; visit
hospitals, morgues and ruined neighborhoods; and, when madness
threatened, to surf or kick around a soccer ball with some
teenagers. On his itinerary: Mogadishu, the Congo, Uganda, Sudan,
Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Israel and just about every
other place where people were killing one another for reasons
ranging from religious differences to territorial disputes. Sites
believes that a single individual's story can often be the best way
to make us see vast landscapes of brutality and suffering, and so
he tells us about people who've lost limbs to land mines, entire
families to a tsunami, a husband to errant shrapnel, a future to
the insidious workings of Agent Orange. "War poses as combat, but
is really collateral damage," he writes. "The actual fighting
between armed groups is a small and infrequent element, while the
violence they radiate on civil society and themselves will last for
generations."The snapshot format necessarily risks superficiality,
but these images and dispatches from the numberless rooms of hell
have an undeniable cumulative power. (Kirkus Reviews)
Kevin Sites is a man on a mission. Venturing alone into the dark
heart of war, armed with just a video camera, a digital camera, a
laptop, and a satellite modem, the award-winning journalist covered
virtually every major global hot spot as the first Internet
correspondent for Yahoo! News. Beginning his journey with the
anarchic chaos of Somalia in September 2005 and ending with the
Israeli-Hezbollah war in the summer of 2006, Sites talks with
rebels and government troops, child soldiers and child brides, and
features the people on every side, including those caught in the
cross fire. His honest reporting helps destroy the myths of war by
putting a human face on war's inhumanity. Personally, Sites will
come to discover that the greatest danger he faces may not be from
bombs and bullets, but from the unsettling power of the truth.
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